Decolonising the History Curriculum

Euro-centrism and Primary Schooling

Marlon Lee Moncrieffe (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XIII, 94 Seiten

2020
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-57944-9 (ISBN)

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This book calls for a reconceptualisation and decolonisation of the Key Stage 2 national history curriculum. The author applies a range of theories in his research with White-British primary school teachers to show how decolonising the history curriculum can generate new knowledge for all, in the face of imposed Eurocentric starting points for teaching and learning in history, and dominant white-cultural attitudes in primary school education. Through both narrative and biographical methodologies, the author presents how teaching and learning Black-British history in schools can be achieved, and centres his Black-British identity and minority-ethnic group experience alongside the immigrant Black-Jamaican perspective of his mother to support a framework of critical thinking of curriculum decolonisation. This book illustrates the potential of transformative thinking and action that can be employed as social justice for minority-ethnic group children who are marginalized in their educational development and learning by the dominant discourses of British history, national building and national identity.

Marlon Moncrieffe is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Brighton, UK. His research interests include curriculum decolonisation and teacher trainee pedagogy.

1. Introduction.- 2. 'Epistemic Violence' in the History Curriculum.- 3. White Trainee-Teachers Reproduce Eurocentric and White- British Histories.- 4. Orienting with Historical Consciousness.- 5. Centring the Black Experience in Key Stage 2 Primary School British History.- 6. Transforming White-British Trainee- Teachers' Thinking Through Black-British History.- 7. Opportunity, Action and Commitment.

Erscheinungsdatum	14.12.2020
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 94 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	287 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
Schlagworte	Anglocentric education • Black British History • British Citizenship education • British Values • Decolonising the Curriculum • Eurocentric history • KS2 History • Teaching British Values
ISBN-10	3-030-57944-1 / 3030579441
ISBN-13	978-3-030-57944-9 / 9783030579449
Zustand	Neuware